Georgia § 10-5-50 - Unlawful practices with offer, sale, or purchase of security.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 10-5-50 — Unlawful practices with offer, sale, or purchase of security., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 10-5-50. Unlawful practices with offer, sale, or purchase of security.
It is unlawful for a person, in connection with the offer, sale, or purchase of a security, directly or indirectly: To employ a device, scheme, or artifice to defraud; To make an untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statement made, in the light of the circumstances under which it is made, not misleading; or To engage in an act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon another person. (Code 1981, § 10-5-50 , enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 381, § 1/SB 358.)
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